THE unhinged road drama Beef from Netflix stands as one of the best television series released by the streaming service, and its 100% score on the American review-aggregation Rotten Tomatoes is a testament to its feat.
Beef, which was released on April 6 and created and produced by Lee Sung Jin, is a dark comedy drama that narrates the catastrophic encounter between two strangers through a road rage incident that instigates their darkest impulses.
Photo courtesy: A24 | ‘Beef’ (2023)
The miniseries’s cast mainly composed of Asian-American actors including Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Joseph Lee (Searching), David Choe (The Mandalorian, Vice), Ashley Park (Emily In Paris, Girls5Eva), Maria Bello (A History Of Violence, Prisoners), and Patti Yasutake (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Drop Dead Gorgeous) to name a few.
The show runs with 10 episodes that follows how the characters deal with rage and the consequences of letting one’s emotions get the best of them.
This A24 dramedy, the hip indie entertainment company who was also behind the Oscar-winning films Everything, Everywhere All At Once and The Whale, exhibits the length a person will go while feeling an all-encompassing vexation.
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Beef also mirrors the reality that all people, not just one, could experience extreme emotions, which reminds viewers to be considerate and sensitive of others as they try to unravel these ever-complicated feelings.
Photo courtesy: A24 | ‘Beef’ (2023)
Because of its skillful stitching of both the storyline and cinematography, the series aced the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and here are some of the appraisals from the top critics of the review aggregator website.
Aside from the Rotten Tomatoes praises, Beef was also applauded by many international critics and publications.
TIME called it a “smart, wild, and darkly funny” series that “honors the differences in class, ethnicity, and personality that make each of its mostly Asian-American characters unique, rather than flattening them into some idealized exercise in ‘positive representation.’”
Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian notes that “Beef, when marinated in creator Lee Sung Jin’s unique perspective and tenderized by unexpected plot twists, soon becomes a delicacy worth savoring.”
Further, the Netflix series, which was hailed by the American news and opinion website Vox as the “best show” on the streaming app, proposes a clear-cut Asian-American lens that one rarely sees in American television series.
“The fascinating thing in Beef is that the class struggle is told through a distinct Asian-American lens. Beef’s writers understand that the Asian-American experience isn’t a monolith. Those experiences are influenced by affluence, ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation, among other things,” it wrote.
